by jflower | May 10, 2008 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, Systems Thinking
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, 5/10/08)Health care organizations need to buckle down and deliver care that is better, faster, cheaper.Here’s what we know: Come next January, the United States will have a new president and a new Congress. We can bet that...
by jflower | Mar 11, 2008 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, March 11, 2008)Cheaper medicine means better medicine. Make your organization efficient.[The emerging conditions of a data-intensive, customer-centric health care world of real choice and real competition drive a number of...
by jflower | Jan 15, 2008 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, January 15, 2008) The attempt to create the Next Health Care faces a much greater threat than politics. [The growing influence of money in politics and regulation is so pervasive that it drowns out most real discussion of...
by jflower | Jan 1, 2008 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce
(From Physician Executive, January/February 2008) [If you run primary-care clinics or practices, multi-specialty practices, or even fully-staffed, full-service urgent care clinics, you are or will soon be in direct competition with the largest and most efficient...